Google To Digitize Much of Harvard’s Library

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: “Accor­ding to an e-mail sent today to Har­vard stu­dents, Goo­gle will colla­bo­rate with Harvard’s libra­ries on a pilot pro­ject to digi­tize a subs­tan­tial num­ber of the 15 million volu­mes held in the University’s exten­sive library sys­tem, which is second only to the Library of Con­gress in the num­ber of volu­mes it con­tains. Goo­gle will pro­vide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In rela­ted agree­ments, Goo­gle will launch simi­lar pro­jects with Oxford, Stan­ford, the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, and the New York Public Library. As of 9 am on Decem­ber 14, a FAQ detai­ling the Har­vard pilot pro­gram with Goo­gle will be avai­la­ble at hul​.har​vard​.edu.”